ARVEY CORPORATION v. PETERSON

Civil Action No. 25384.

178 F.Supp. 132 (1959)

ARVEY CORPORATION v. William PETERSON and Berlin and Jones Company, Division of Harrison-Blaine, Inc.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

October 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert A. Fogel, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Lloyd A. Good, Jr., Roper & Caldwell, Philadelphia, Pa., for William Peterson, defendant.


EGAN, District Judge.

This matter is now before the Court on plaintiff's motion to dismiss the two counts of the amended counterclaim filed by William Peterson.

The second count of the counterclaim is based upon an alleged libelous letter written by the plaintiff and the motion to dismiss raises some very novel questions in the law of defamation.

Under generally recognized conflict of laws principles, the substantive law to be applied in a tort action...

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